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RefNoPP/16/13
Previous numbersPP/48/13
LevelFile
TitlePaper, 'Experiments with Lord Rayleigh's colour box' by Arthur Schuster
Date1890
DescriptionSchuster writes: 'Lord Rayleigh described before the meeting of the British Association, in 1881, a colour box in which artificial yellow is produced by mixing a pure red and green, and this yellow is directly compared to the yellow of the spectrum [see Nature, 17 November 1881]. Lord Rayleigh has given an account of certain peculiarities of vision observed in a number of persons, and it seemed to me worth while to extend the enquiry to a greater number of observers, and also, if possible, to obtain some evidence as to the existence of smaller differences than those described in Lord Rayleigh’s paper.'

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes one graph of experimental observations.

Subject: Optics

Received 15 May 1890 / 16 May 1890. Read 5 June 1890.

A version of this paper was published in volume 48 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Experiments with Lord Rayleigh's colour box'.
Extent23p
FormatManuscript
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PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1038/025064a0
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1890.0019
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CodePersonNameDates
NA6090Strutt; John William (1842 - 1919); 3rd Baron Rayleigh1842 - 1919
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